W.+A.+Groebner

In March of 1947, Ilene Lorraine Eagen was brought to Mankato, Minnesota, to the dental office of Willard Andrew Groebner for an abortion. Court records indicate that Ilene was pressured into the abortion by her paramour, Raymond Older, who refused to marry her and threatened her with bodily harm if she refused an abortion.

After the abortion, Ilene became violently ill and lost consciousness. Groebner and Older failed to seek or provide properly care for the sick woman. Instead, Older took Ilene to his service station in Granada, Minnesota and kept her there through the remainder of the night, into the morning. Older allowed Ilene to languish without medical care. She died two days later, leaving a seven-year-old daughter motherless.

Groebner lived as a free man, but died at the age of 42 in 1964.